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@TinyLittlePoems contributed several beautiful poems. This was the most re-tweeted. Thank you!
The official Twitter hashtag for the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture was #artsummit.
The culture360.org team used several tools to track the #artsummit hashtag to learn more about the value of Twitter and how it can be used more effectively in the future. We hope you will find it useful too 
Top Tweet! “The arts are a catalyst for change because they inspire people to think, to dream and to act” #artsummit Lisa Jansen, Germany via @culture360_asef
#artsummit By Numbers
More than 1450 tweets containing the hashtag #artsummit were sent by 295 unique Twitter users. The tweets contained 96 other hash tags and more that 170 URLs.
80% (1168) of the tweets in this were made by 23% (68) of the twitterers.
The users who had the most #artsummit “Twitter conversations” can be viewed here.
According to TweetReach.com tweets with the #artsummit hastag reached more than 200,000 people! You can view the full #artsummit TweetReach report Oct 1-9 2011 here, 3.5mb PDF.
Top 10 Twitter users by volume of tweets were:
@ArtsAccessAust (123) @NEAarts (122)
@culture360_asef (104) @culturaperu (70)
@sarmoti (55) @auscouncilarts(47)
@AnneLEcuyer (43) @TheRenza (27)
@tinylittlepoems (27) @kdcWORK (25)
Top 10 Twitter users by volume of @reply recipients and/or mentions were: (This shows who was most influential)
@NEAarts (190+), @Ifacca (170+), @culture360_asef (65+), @ArtsAccessAust (60+),
@auscouncilarts (45+), @culturaperu (40+), @ABCArts (35+), @tinylittlepoems (25+),
@stmartinsyac (20+), @sarmoti (20+)
Top 5 tweeted URLs
#artsummit Word Cloud
The most commonly tweeted words at the #artsummit
Top Tweet! “15th #artsummit rec: govts to recognize the role of arts and culture in improving economic, social, and environmental life for all citizens” via @NEAarts
Tools
TwapperKeeper is a social storage and reporting tool heavily used by academic organisations and conferences. It allows users to archive, track, monitor, and analyze tweets by hashtag, keywords, or users.
View the entire #artsummit TwapperKeeper archive of more than 1450 tweets.
Summarizr is a tool that summarizes TwapperKeeper archives in the form of graphs and word clouds.
Paper.li offers an easy way to automatically collate tweets in to an online newspaper.
View the Oct 6th 2011 edition of #artsummit Twitter eye view
Top Tweet! “If art has a role in everyday lives of citizens, elected officials will have to support the arts” #artsummit via @NEAarts
